browneyedpaloma

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remember those days of fire-lit dancing, a cuisla, when you’d stomp in youthful impetuousness to make me your proper warrior – but i’d flutter too much, like the heather and the fox, and the small thorn-tree we’d take for an omen, just as your father (the gypsy) used to instruct us to do. remember the naked, warlike ebullience you felt when he taught you to leap with muscular fierce boyishness, after you’d creep to me apologetically, for comfort; you with your gentle irreverence for my brown horsetail hair, and the pure scratchiness of my coat that always carried the close, musky scent of

Aisling by browneyedpaloma, literature

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Aisling

i saw the beginnings of an infinite sun-shower just hidden today in the laugh lines of your eyes so let's walk a little farther and you can take me to that damp green forest where willows keep their tears quiet bent over in stifled pain i will put my hands on the bark and heal them caressing i will offer up a prayer intercessions for the sorrows of the myrrh perhaps then her father will forgive her and beauty will again hover silent breathless in her womb you've filled me with words a stór they quiver brimful and light pure on the tip of your tongue and escape playful as poetry with every kiss i steal tranquil

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Our Own Sacred Silence

Sean Og draped his jacket Over my shoulders To hug me From the chill, close Damp Of the Rahoon holy well. We were blessed, ourselves, Standing together in the weak Pale light, bursting Young and eager From behind the cross. But I think Saint Grellan might have Not altogether approved Of us, Heads bowed, And Sean Og's fingers chipping Steadily at the jagged red Paint Still left on my nails. We blinked at each other In the fog and heather And sweet slow water, Our stilted, awkward movements Just that tender, Painful; Coming to us As naturally as breathing.

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A Man Mourns His Muse We were all paired on Parnassus. But when the city sank under the howling water I left him. Snap. I caught him old on his deathbed. He spoke quietly. I leaned in, deftly: Once I dreamt of flickering elms the dancing cars O I chased them till I wept. I could not match them for speed. They threw spooling loops of light as though they knew I would not catch them. In another dream I skated the wafer of light between evening and night balanced, glacial until the moon rose and I fell. Today I felt I'd slipped into the space between terraced houses. He could not have known. I

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Artist // Hobbyist // Literature

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Deviant for 7 years
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Come and dance with me under my empire of pines, where sparse green moss clings loverlike to the carcasses of these fallen giants.

On My Bookshelf
"Mysteries of the Middle Ages", Thomas Cahill
"The Child from the Sea", Elizabeth Goudge
"Cien Anos de Soledad", Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Favourite Visual Artist

Thomas Kinkade, William Orpen, James Pictures

Favourite Movies

A Beautiful Mind, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, October Sky, Machine Gun Preacher, Life, Robin Hood, War Horse, The Secret Life of Bees, The Patriot, Mrs. Doubtfire, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Dr. Zhivago

Favourite TV Shows

Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, Laverne & Shirley, The Three Stooges

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

David Arkenstone, Alasdair Fraser, Boston, Santana, Celtic Fiddle Festival, The Goo-Goo Dolls, Fleetwood Mac, Darby Devon, Foo Fighters, Tito Nieves

Favourite Books

Galway Bay, To Kill a Mocking Bird, El Amor y Otros Demonios, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, David Copperfield, The Rainbow, Wuthering Heights, Girl with the Pearl Earring

Favourite Writers

Mary Pat Kelly, D.H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, James Joyce, Padraic Pearse

Favourite Games

King of Thieves, That Level Again, Cut the Rope

Tools of the Trade

My tattered leather notebook, a pen or pencil, a small warm closet, or a wide-open, windy meadow

Other Interests

Photography, dance, music & singing, cooking (and eating), and all things Irish

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browneyedpaloma

May 31, 2016

Because I'm Such a Softy for Quizzes...

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So, this here is a bit of an open-invitation tagged quiz, which I am participating in thanks to the nonconformist !MagpieGemini (https://www.deviantart.com/magpiegemini)... and because I'm feeling fluffy. Advance apologies for any mental scarring that may occur. Name: Whatever I want it to be on any given day - people know me by only one name, but my true name keeps changing. Star sign: Sagittarius! :iconyepplz: Average hours of sleep: If I fall asleep anywhere before midnight (a rare occurrence, mind you), I only need seven to eight hours before I pop up like the Energizer bunny again. However, a typical night/day's sleep consists of almost twelve hours for me! :meow: Lucky

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browneyedpaloma

May 31, 2016

Thanks so much to the mods at EntertheSpectrum for featuring me this month! :iconbummy1::iconbummy2::iconbummy3::iconbummy1::iconbummy2::iconbummy3::iconbummy1::iconbummy2::iconbummy3::iconbummy1:

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angelserum

Aug 2, 2016

_{Hi there! A belated welcome to the (lit) community, and I hope you have a wonderful day! I look forward to seeing what you have to share with us!!

If you ever have any questions or just want to chat, please feel free to leave me a comment or note.}